Word: nkrumah
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...showboating President Sukarno told the Assembly that he favored Khrushchev's proposal to move U.N. headquarters away from New York to an "uncommitted nation." At week's end, Tito summoned all the top neutralists to a "neutralist summit meeting" at the Yugoslav U.N. mission-Sukarno, Nehru, Nkrumah and Nasser. After three hours' talk, they agreed on a General Assembly resolution urging a meeting between Khrushchev and President Eisenhower...
Best of Both. Equally nimble, Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah raced around Manhattan shaking black hands and white hands at every opportunity. Casting himself in the role of mother hen to the 15 newly emerged African states, U.S.-educated Nkrumah strode from his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria alternately dressed in Western business suits and Ghanaian ceremonial robes, and seemed to promise to fellow Africans the best of both worlds...
...Nkrumah assiduously promoted his view that erratic Patrice Lumumba should be restored to power as Premier of the chaotic Congo, and warned newsmen that anything which damaged the prestige or authority of Lumumba's nonexistent government would "undermine the whole basis of democracy in Africa...
...Russians and the Czechs were gone, and Patrice Lumumba's Red-lining advisers had been sent packing, but now a new foreign force was at work in the confused Congo. It was that of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, whose fervent hope is to rally an entire continent behind his Pan-African banner...
...young commissioners appointed by Colonel Joseph Mobutu made public a secret letter Nkrumah had written to Premier Patrice Lumumba three weeks ago. Nkrumah addressed Lumumba as "my brother," gave him detailed instructions on how to circumvent his Cabinet, urged him: "Don't make an issue of Kasavubu's treachery now. The time will come. You must not push out the United Nations until you have consolidated your position." Concluded Nkrumah: "When in doubt consult me . . . We know how to handle imperialists and colonialists...